School: Ráth Sheiscinn (roll number 13866)
- Location:
- Ratheskin, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Anna Ní Chléirigh
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- (continued from previous page)We must be off tonight on two gorses when all are in bed. We'll bring sacks of gold with us and we will ride as fast as the wind. My father will follow us.
When they were travelling she told the boy look back. He saw an army following. She threw a feather and a wood grew up between them and the army. They had to return. They pursued them again and were within two hundred yards of them. She threw a drop out of a bottle and it made a lake all were drowned in it but the father. He swelled with the water. The boy cut the head off him and then halved it with the sword. The head spoke and said if it got up again he wouldn't conquer it.
The pair returned and lived in the castle.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Annie Cleary
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilfian, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Thomas Finnegan
- Relation
- Not a relative
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Creevagh More, Co. Mayo